Divided destinies: Group choice by female savannah baboons during social group fission

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 61, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1823-1837

  Van Horn, Russell C ^a   Buchan, Jason C ^a   Altmann, Jeanne ^b,c,d   Alberts, Susan C ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Brookfield Zoo ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Fission; Fitness; Kinship; Social bonds; Social rank

Indexed keywords

FITNESS; KIN RECOGNITION; KINSHIP; PRIMATE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

PAPIO; PAPIO CYNOCEPHALUS;

EID: 34548588282     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-007-0415-1     Document Type: Article

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